The political science professor who was assaulted by so-called “protesters” at Middlebury College in Vermont on Thursday is speaking out for the first time since the incident. What she has to say is surprising given the circumstances.

As TruthRevolt previously reported, Professor Allison Stanger and libertarian author and political scientist Charles Murray were set to give a lecture but were shut down by fascist students holding signs and pulling fire alarms. This forced the lecture to move locations and continue online via livestream, even though the noise from the protests could still be heard.

The violent students, whom the school’s president said included “outside agitators,” didn’t bother to read Murray’s books on ethnicity and IQ but took the hate group Southern Poverty Law Center’s word that he is a “white nationalist.” That’s all they needed to know to attack him or anyone with him, including their own professor. Stanger’s hair was pulled, which jerked her neck and sent her to the emergency room for a neck brace and pain pills.

Stanger posted her thoughts and extra details on Facebook:

I agreed to participate in the event with Charles Murray, because several of my students asked me to do so. They are smart and good people, all of them, and this was their big event of the year. I actually welcomed the opportunity to be involved, because while my students may know I am a Democrat, all of my courses are nonpartisan, and this was a chance to demonstrate publicly my commitment to a free and fair exchange of views in my classroom. As the campus uproar about his visit built, I was genuinely surprised and troubled to learn that some of my faculty colleagues had rendered judgement on Dr. Murray’s work and character, while openly admitting that they had not read anything he had written. With the best of intentions, they offered their leadership to enraged students, and we all now know what the results were.

I want you to know what it feels like to look out at a sea of students yelling obscenities at other members of my beloved community. There were students and faculty who wanted to hear the exchange, but were unable to do so, either because of the screaming and chanting and chair-pounding in the room, or because their seats were occupied by those who refused to listen, and they were stranded outside the doors. I saw some of my faculty colleagues who had publicly acknowledged that they had not read anything Dr. Murray had written join the effort to shut down the lecture. All of this was deeply unsettling to me. What alarmed me most, however, was what I saw in student eyes from up on that stage. Those who wanted the event to take place made eye contact with me. Those intent on disrupting it steadfastly refused to do so. It was clear to me that they had effectively dehumanized me. They couldn’t look me in the eye, because if they had, they would have seen another human being. There is a lot to be angry about in America today, but nothing good ever comes from demonizing our brothers and sisters.

Stanger goes on to describe her assault as she and Murray exited the building to an awaiting car and how she “feared for [her] life.” The two were looking forward to having dinner and further discussions with other colleagues but that, too, was cut short as the mob found out their location and forced them to consider leaving town.

But despite this horrendous first-hand experience, she asked the story not to be spun “as one about what’s wrong with elite colleges and universities.” 

“Please instead consider this as a metaphor for what is wrong with our country, and on that, Charles Murray and I would agree,” Stanger added. “This was the saddest day of my life. We have got to do better by those who feel and are marginalized.”

In any war — and it’s no exaggeration that this campus lunacy is a war on free thought — you have to know your enemy. Stanger clearly does not.